New York, NY --A new study published today in the Journal of Pediatrics is the first to show that weight...

March 28, 2018, London, UK - The Biochemical Society has announced the winners of the Society's annual awards today. The...

DALLAS, April 4, 2018 -- Elderly Australian women who ate more vegetables showed less carotid artery wall thickness, according to...

Credit: Sandra Leander/ASU If you believe it, you can achieve it. You've probably heard this motivational phrase more than once....

Electronic waste -- including discarded televisions, computers and mobile phones -- is one of the fastest-growing waste categories worldwide. For...

ARLINGTON, Va., April 4, 2018 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued an update to its clinical...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Dopamine, a signaling chemical in the brain, has the lofty job of controlling emotions, moods, movements...

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - High blood pressure -- or hypertension -- is a major risk factor...

Credit: Philip Carella By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution...

Credit: Kyoto University / Sato Lab Human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV -- is believed to have evolved from a simian...

Credit: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kristina Dietert Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin's university hospital, have discovered a new mechanism...

Credit: EI With the largest population in the world, China feeds nearly 1.4 billion people - covering 22% of the...

Every day, stem cells in our bone marrow produce billions of new red blood cells. Any disruption in this process...

Ten-day-old baby birds are able to maintain their regular body temperature despite nest box temperatures of 50C° or above. Researchers...

PITTSBURGH -- (April 4, 2018) Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced the release of...

Around 600 children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with leukaemia each year in Germany. The effects are especially...

Improved care for street dogs is the goal of a new smartphone app devised by an international team of animal...

South Asians living in the UK feel cut off and excluded from education or self-help programmes, preventing them from managing...

Credit: Antonia Fettelschoss-Gabriel / USZ Scientists from the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Oxford as well as the Latvian Biomedical...

Can acupressure achieve a sustained reduction in menstrual pain? Is an app-based self-care program particularly attractive to young women? These...